Meeting minutes of 3 September 2020
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Agenda:
* Release Dates
* Subtrees
* LTS
* Conferences
* Opens
Participants:
* Arm
* Broadcom
* Debian/Microsoft
* Intel
* Marvell
* Nvidia
* NXP
* Red Hat
Release Dates
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* v20.11 dates
* Proposal/V1: Friday, 11 September 2020
* -rc1: Friday, 9 October 2020
* -rc2: Friday, 23 October 2020
* Release: Friday, 13 November 2020
* Nvidia Mellanox, Marvell & Broadcom already sent roadmap, all contributors
please send roadmap for the release.
Subtrees
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* main
* There are multiple deprecation notice to close
* Make deprecation is high priority, it may affect many
* There is a CI affect needs to be handled
* python2 deprecation is good to have for release, but not urgent for now
* there are multiple ethdev changes planned, some are still missing
* Some ethdev ABI break in the mail list without deprecation notice
* removing enum MAX values, still not sent a patch
* moving kernel modules to new repo is waiting
* it can be good to move the git history too, if it is easy to do
* We may need to prioritize the features for the release
* To be sure some high priority features addressed for the release
* next-net
* ~200 patches
* Some merged and has pulled from some subtrees
* Ethdev from previous releases are still open
* One new PMD: txgbe
* next-crypto
* Will start working next week
* There is no backup maintainer for crypto tree, good to have one
* Requesting from community to review the patches and support
* There are multiple new PMDs
* next-eventdev
* DLB driver is waiting for v2, which will come soon
* next-virtio
* There are three major patchset
* vhost add vectorized data path
* Virtio vDPA driver
* vhost new featres
* Rest are fixes or small improvements
* next-net-mlx, next-net-intel, next-net-brcm
* Some patches merged and pulled by next-net
* next-net-mrvl
* There are some patches, planning to merge next week
LTS
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* 18.11.10
* Backporting going on
* -rc1 planned for Monday
* v19.11.4-rc1 is out, please test
* http://inbox.dpdk.org/dev/20200818181222.8462-1-bl...@debian.org/T/#u
* Canonical, Red Hat, Intel, OvS, Nvidia & Microsoft sent test reports.
* Release postponed based on some issues reported by validation
Conferences
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* DPDK Userspace summit 2020 is on September 22 & 23, schedule is online:
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/dpdk-userspace-summit/program/schedule/
* Two days, overall 6 hours (2x3) of talks
* No break between talks
Opens
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* Ajit shared the defect backlog in the Bugzilla
* There are some unassigned defects, because of maintainer is not registered
to Bugzilla, not possible to assign them.
* Please all maintainers of the project register to Bugzilla
https://bugs.dpdk.org/
* Copy/Paste from Ajit's notes:
* We have 147 open bugs in UNCONFIRMED/CONFIRMED/IN_PROCRESS state.
* 45 of them are unassigned (assigned to 'dev@dpdk.org' by default)
DPDK Release Status Meetings
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The DPDK Release Status Meeting is intended for DPDK Committers to discuss the
status of the master tree and sub-trees, and for project managers to track
progress or milestone dates.
The meeting occurs on every Thursdays at 8:30 UTC. on https://meet.jit.si/DPDK
If you wish to attend just send an email to
"John McNamara <john.mcnam...@intel.com>" for the invite.
